CONTRACT BRIDGE

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 2

CONTRACT BRIDGE

VISITORS FROM DUNEDIN r A team of 12 contract bridge players, members of the Otago Bridge Club, arrived in Christchurch yesterday to play a match against a team representing Crockford’s Club. Christchurch. The players from Dunedin are Mr® G. Black. Mrs D. Cameron, Mrs G. Chance, Mrs J. Woodhbuse, Miss M. Elliot, Messrs Baden Wilson, J. H. Fulton, N. Allan, A. Penrose, W. C. Thomson, H. Halliday,- and J. Mills.' Members of Crockford’s team are Mesdames C. M. Hill, A. S. Geddes, Noel Laver, C. A. Stringer, V.' Stapp, M. E. Pipe, J. M. Turnbull, G. B. Morgan. R. Renton Bell, S. A. Wade, C. Ring, R. Law, G. S. Cowper, C. W. Reid, J. A. S. Wait, H-H. Wauchop, S. C. Dixon, M. M. Bayne, Misses R. Cracroft Wilson. M. Bromley Cocks,' I. Hughes, V. Sapsford, Messrs D. T. McCormick, E. F. Stead, E. C. R. Anderson, H. P. V. Brown, Professor P. H. Powell.

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PRESENTATION SOCIAL ■vr” ' v I -

. .v;; . . •..., ( MISS P. WALL HONOUREb

To honour their past president, Miss Patricia Wall, whose* marriage will take place to-day, members of the Grail movement held a tea at the Catholic Women’s League rooms, Stewart Dawson’s building. The rooms were" beautifully, decorated with spring flowers, and during the evening all members took part in singing, group dancing, and competi r tionS.

On behalf of the Grail movement, the Rev. Father E. Joyce (spiritual director) wished Miss Wall every happiness in her future life, and presented her with a dinner set. .He assured Miss Wall that although their natural feelings of joy at her happiness were tinged with regret at parting, members were deeply grateful to her for leaving them the priceless heritage of the Grail, which she had been mainly responsible for establishing in ' Christchurch. He paid tribute to the fine qualities of character which had enabled her to bring the movement to its present successful stage of development, and expressed his confidence in the leadership of the new president. Miss Cushla Callaghan.